pr...@cam.ac.uk (Patrick Welche) writes:
>On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 12:48:17PM +0900, Ryota Ozaki wrote:
>> I encountered a panic perhaps related to SMAP or SMEP
>> (see attached photos) with latest -current.
>>
>> Does the panic ring the bell of someone?
>Just that the first of the two panics I posted about today contains
>#1 0xffffffff8096c23c in vpanic (
> fmt=fmt@entry=0xffffffff810e573d "prevented access to %p (SMAP)",
> ap=ap@entry=0xffffe4011dda9558) at ../../../../kern/subr_prf.c:342
That's just a special kind of uvmfault (i.e. dereferencing invalid pointer).
It used to trap only unmapped addresses, now it also traps access to userland
memory outside of the copyin/copyout functions. Apparently accesses to
the first page (i.e. from a NULL pointer) are also included.
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